[ale] Stupid smart phone

[Chuck Payne]

Yeah, I had to disable that feature, because when I walk I love to use my
phone as an MP3 player, and it drove me up the wall, that shaking the
phone, told music apps to skip to the next song. Ugh. I am like why in the
hell would  you want that.

I have an AT & T Flip phone in the closet, about 4 years old, never used.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 7:55 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Curmudgeon Alert!
>
> Wife complains she calls and my phone answers but I'm not actually on the
> phone. She can hear sounds from my end. I have no idea what she's talking
> about. Until one day I heard her yelling my name from my pocket.
>
> My security sense goes into high alert. Can someone call and my phone will
> automatically answer in my pocket and without my knowledge? What fresh, new
> level of personal privacy hell has android now sunk to?
>
> In settings, gestures, is a way to have the phone automatically answer a
> call by just the motion of moving the phone from a viewing location to the
> ear.
>
> Pretty much the same motion of walking with the phone in a mid-thigh phone
> pocket on my cargo pants.
>
> I turned off that setting.
>
> So what's next? A gesture that blocks callers if the phone is turned
> screen down?
>
> Maybe a bit of delay that involves the actual ringing of the phone? Maybe
> checking if the phone is in pocket mode? Or the case cover is closed? Or
> maybe stop writing stupid code for people too lazy to plop their cheeto
> stained thumb on the answer button.
>
> Can I still buy an analog flip phone I can dial by touch with numbers I
> actually remember?
>
> Get off my lawn!
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